a window manager for the X window system
The Fluxbox window manager is based on the Blackbox window manager and aims to be fast and easily customisable with modest resource requirements. It provides a comprehensive set of features.
Questions tagged [fluxbox]
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Change Chromium from automatically launches Nautilus with the Show In Folder command
Chrome offers a menu for each downloaded item, in which one can Show in Folder the item. This menu-command automatically launches Nautilus at the desired location. Nice.
However, now my main desktop management is Fluxbox. So, when Nautilus wakes up,…
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Is there a small, lightweight application to have desktop icons like on Windows?
I run Fluxbox with tint2 which I am very happy with, as I prefer it to running a full desktop environment, even a lightweight desktop environment.
On the other hand, my normal workflow revolves around having files I am currently working on on the…
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Making Fluxbox look pretty
I'm trying to setup Fluxbox to look nice on my machine as I familiar with it and find it functional.
One thing stoping me from moving to it fulltime, while seemingly trivial, is that it looks ugly. I have a 1680x1050 screen and fluxbox does not seem…
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Fluxbox and Zoom, How to get window decorations?
I use fluxbox as my window manager. All of my other applications, besides the Zoom video conference application has window decorations, and they can be toggled on/off with the appropriate fluxbox key binding/command. Zoom does not. I has space above…
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Alt+Tab on Fluxbox
I've been using Fluxbox on my netbook, and have been very pleased. That is, with everything but one feature. I would really like it if I could use Fluxbox with the added functionality that when I use Alt+Tab it will show me the windows I am…
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Causing fluxbox to show a different time then the default timezone
I've moved to fluxbox as my default environment on our corporate environment.
I obviously can't change the time on the machine. But I'd like the clock to show my local time instead of the machine's local time.
Any way that can be achieved?
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Notification message tray?
Cinnamon desktop environment has a rather nifty idea of a tray in the systray that holds all notification messages till their read and cleared, and then becomes empty. How can I have the same thing in fluxbox please? I think it needs to be done via…
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how to force (enable) window decorations on application
I recently needed to join a "Zoom" meeting from my Debian workstation on which I use Fluxbox for my window manager.
The Zoom application starts in the upper left corner of my display with no titlebar or window decorations, so I cannot move it or…
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Fluxbox battery monitor?
I'm using fluxbox on Arch, and I'm trying to put a battery monitor in the toolbar, next to the time.
gkrellm takes up too much space, and can't be configured in the toolbar, as far as I know.
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Fluxbox dual screen configuration
I recently set up a second monitor for my home computer. Through the use of nvidia-settings, I was able to set up my two monitors. My second monitor is set up as a separate X screen to the right of the main one and Xinerama is enabled. The result it…
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how do I enable fluxbox instead of Gnome by default in Ubuntu
I'm working on a VPS which I can control with PuTTY and FreeNX.
I don't have enough RAM for Gnome, so I want fluxbox to start by default instead of Gnome. how do I do that?
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Changing the lock screen in xscreensaver to i3lock
I am running Arch Linux + Fluxbox. I have installed i3lock but the screen won't lock automatically as the program isn't designed to do that. Now, I want to change the default lock screen in xscreensaver package to i3lock. I have no idea about how to…
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Dual monitor, two different desktops?
If have two different monitors, both connected to the same integrated graphics
card, one using VGA and the other using DVI connection.
It looks like this in my room:
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How to add a keyboard-layout applet switcher to Fluxbox toolbar?
In Manjaro Fluxbox there is no keyboard layout switch in the panel/toolbar tray.
How do I add that?
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Fluxbox: how to map a key for taking screenshot of selected area?
I want to map the Ctrl+Alt+4 to take a screenshot of a selected area. Right now I can do that from a terminal using gnome-screenshot -a. I have tried putting:
Control Mod1 4 :ExecCommand gnome-screenshot -a`
in my ~/.fluxbox/keys but that does not…
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